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Fake News, Fast and Slow: Deliberation Reduces Belief in False (but Not True) News Headlines by Bago, Bence, Rand, David G, Pennycook, Gordon

“…What role does deliberation play in susceptibility to political misinformation and "fake news"? The Motivated System 2 Reasoning (MS2R) account posits that…”
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Cooperation, Fast and Slow: Meta-Analytic Evidence for a Theory of Social Heuristics and Self-Interested Deliberation by Rand, David G.

“…Does cooperating require the inhibition of selfish urges? Or does "rational" self-interest constrain cooperative impulses? I investigated the role of intuition…”
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The Psychology of Fake News by Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G.

“…We synthesize a burgeoning literature investigating why people believe and share false or highly misleading news online. Contrary to a common narrative whereby…”
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Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning by Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G.

“…•Participants rated perceived accuracy of fake and real news headlines.•Analytic thinking was associated with ability to discern between fake and real.•We…”
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Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality by Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G.

“…Reducing the spread of misinformation, especially on social media, is a major challenge. We investigate one potential approach: having social media…”
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Who falls for fake news? The roles of bullshit receptivity, overclaiming, familiarity, and analytic thinking by Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G.

“…Objective Fake news represents a particularly egregious and direct avenue by which inaccurate beliefs have been propagated via social media. We investigate the…”
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Self-reported willingness to share political news articles in online surveys correlates with actual sharing on Twitter by Mosleh, Mohsen, Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G

“…There is an increasing imperative for psychologists and other behavioral scientists to understand how people behave on social media. However, it is often very…”
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The promise of Mechanical Turk: How online labor markets can help theorists run behavioral experiments by Rand, David G.

“…Combining evolutionary models with behavioral experiments can generate powerful insights into the evolution of human behavior. The emergence of online labor…”
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Beliefs About COVID-19 in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Novel Test of Political Polarization and Motivated Reasoning by Pennycook, Gordon, McPhetres, Jonathon, Bago, Bence, Rand, David G.

“…What are the psychological consequences of the increasingly politicized nature of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States relative to similar Western…”
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The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings by Pennycook, Gordon, Bear, Adam, Collins, Evan T., Rand, David G.

“…What can be done to combat political misinformation? One prominent intervention involves attaching warnings to headlines of news stories that have been…”
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Prior Exposure Increases Perceived Accuracy of Fake News by Pennycook, Gordon, Cannon, Tyrone D., Rand, David G.

“…The 2016 U.S. presidential election brought considerable attention to the phenomenon of "fake news": entirely fabricated and often partisan content that is…”
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Intuition, deliberation, and the evolution of cooperation by Bear, Adam, Rand, David G.

“…Humans often cooperate with strangers, despite the costs involved. A long tradition of theoretical modeling has sought ultimate evolutionary explanations for…”
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Accuracy prompts are a replicable and generalizable approach for reducing the spread of misinformation by Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G.

“…Interventions that shift users attention toward the concept of accuracy represent a promising approach for reducing misinformation sharing online. We assess…”
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Habits of Virtue: Creating Norms of Cooperation and Defection in the Laboratory by Peysakhovich, Alexander, Rand, David G.

“…What explains variability in norms of cooperation across organizations and cultures? One answer comes from the tendency of individuals to internalize typically…”
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Economic games on the internet: the effect of $1 stakes by Amir, Ofra, Rand, David G, Gal, Ya'akov Kobi

“…Online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) offer an unprecedented opportunity to run economic game experiments quickly and inexpensively…”
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Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention by Pennycook, Gordon, McPhetres, Jonathon, Zhang, Yunhao, Lu, Jackson G., Rand, David G.

“…Across two studies with more than 1,700 U.S. adults recruited online, we present evidence that people share false claims about COVID-19 partly because they…”
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Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online by Pennycook, Gordon, Epstein, Ziv, Mosleh, Mohsen, Arechar, Antonio A., Eckles, Dean, Rand, David G.

“…In recent years, there has been a great deal of concern about the proliferation of false and misleading news on social media 1 – 4 . Academics and…”
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Human cooperation by Rand, David G, Nowak, Martin A

“…Highlights • Theoretical work has revealed five mechanisms for the evolution of cooperation. • These are direct and indirect reciprocity, and spatial,…”
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Social dilemma cooperation (unlike Dictator Game giving) is intuitive for men as well as women by Rand, David G.

“…Does intuition favor prosociality, or does prosocial behavior require deliberative self-control? The Social Heuristics Hypothesis (SHH) stipulates that…”
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Third-party punishment as a costly signal of trustworthiness by Jordan, Jillian J., Hoffman, Moshe, Bloom, Paul, Rand, David G.

“…In human societies, individuals who violate social norms may be punished by third-party observers who have not been harmed by the violator; this study suggests…”
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